Hello, I'm C.A. Monks. I like seeing everyday people put into extraordinary circumstances, and when you expect them to sink, they swim. When you expect them to fail, they succeed. We're all capable of greatness. We all can exceed the expectations of others.
I believe humour, politeness, and stoicism are the cheat codes to life.
I'll show you how.
If I fail, at least you'll be entertained along the way.
Trust in me.
Showcased Literary Works
Lost in the Thicket
Lost in the Thicket is an essential and bold, absurdist satire on celebrity, power, wealth, and society.
Billy Walters is an ambitious but failed journalist who enters the orbit of two billionaires. Those two plutocrats aim to usher in a new era of oligarchy, no matter how many people have to die for them to get what they want.
Only one man can stop them, whoever he is.
The one person it definitely isn't is Billy Walters.
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Lost in the Thicket doesn't hold back. It levels its literary pistol and takes careful aim at its targets... then lobs a neutron bomb at them.
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This is the book Joseph Heller wished he'd written. Or, at least, used to kill a spider with.
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Undeadwood
Seth Bullock was not surprised when he woke up dead...
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The year is 1876. The unincorporated town of Deadwood wants to be part of the United States of America. The discovery of gold in the hills outside the town should make this process simple.
There's just one problem: nobody in the town who dies is completing the task.
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The Sheriff, Seth Bullock, initially puts this down to the Deadwood citizens being either too stupid or too stubborn to die properly, but when it happens to him, he realises there's a mystery afoot.
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Undeadwood is possibly the world's first comedy-mystery-horror-zombie-historical-detective thriller.​
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The Stormsport Saga
Sam, Stone, and Gretchen must navigate the dangerous town of Stormsport and the wider magical world.
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Dark wizards, werewolves, zombies, sirens, teachers. There's nothing in Stormsport that doesn't want to kill you.
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The Stormsport novels are an absolute blast. A trip into the magical and supernatural, with a dark heart, a cynical wit, and plenty of adventure.
